Killed was Jovany Diaz, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office. Diaz was a freshman at Amundsen High School, according to his family and school officials.
Police said Diaz was celebrating his birthday with a 19-year-old man thought to be a relative in a front yard of a home in the 4300 block of West Hirsch Street when a gunman approached from across the street about 10 p.m. and opened fire.
Diaz was struck in the chest and the 19-year-old man was struck once in the right hand, police said.
Diaz, who lived on the same block where he was shot, was rushed to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 10:46 p.m., a medical examiner's spokesman said. The second wounded teen was treated at a local hospital and released.
Police had only a vague description of the gunman and of a gray or silver vehicle fleeing the scene.
This afternoon, friends and family remembered Diaz with an impromptu memorial near where he was killed on Hirsh Street that they said started soon after his death.
"He was a good boy," said 22-year-old Ashley Bruno, who watched him grow up. "He was so smart, and he was always smiling, those big white teeth."
Standing 6 feet tall, Diaz played center for Amundsen High School's basketball team, family members said. He was on the school's freshman team, said Frank Shuftan, a spokesman for the Chicago Public schools.
"His drug was sports," said his sister Maritza Rodriguez, 25, the oldest of six siblings. "The streets for him was basketball."
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it so bad people killing our kids and our baby the street it not safe like it was when i growing up
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